Kettle-cleaner.



No. 822,926. PATENTED JUNE 12, 1906. M. A. DAVIES.

KETTLE CLEANER.

APPLIGATIUK FILED SEPT. 18. 1905.

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UN ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARY A. DAVIES, or AMSTERDAM, new YORK. V

KETTLECLEANER.

Specification of Letters Yatent.

Patented June 12, 1906,

Application filed September 18, 1905. Serial No. 278,896.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY Amos DAVIES, a citizen of the United States,residing at Amsterdam, county of Montgomery, and State oi ew York, haveinvented certain new and l useful Improvements in Kettle-Cleaners, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The invention relates to such improvements; and it consists of the novelconstruction and combination of parts hereinafter described and subseuently claimed.

Reference may lae had to the accompanying drawings, and the referencecharacters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar charsc tors refer to similar ports in the several figurestherein.

Figure 1 of the drawings is 3. view in isometrical perspective of my imrovcd cleaner. Fig. 2 is a like View of a strip of thin sheet metal laidout flat and adapted to be bent up to form the im roved cleaner. Fig. 3is a. side elevation o. the improved cleaner, showing a modified form ofconstruction. Fig. 4 is altop plan view of the modified form shown inlg. 3.

The sheet-metal strip is bent into the form shown in Fig. 1, so thatapproximately one half of the strip forms a ring 1 and the other hell ofthe strip forms a combination handle and cleaner 2, wherein the end 3 ofthe strip is bent back upon the ring and connected therewith bysoldering, brazing, or in any known manner, forming the comparativelysharp edge 4 at the extreme end of the V- shaped handle portion. The end5 of the strip is also firmly secured to the body portion of the strip,as by soldering or brazing, thereby giving rigidity to the ring 1, alsorigidit Y to the handle ortion, both sides being rigid y fixed relativey to the ring by the soldered connection of the two ends 3 and 5. I amthus able to cheaply and easily construct a rigid and solid structurel'rornasin le piece of sheet metal which is especially a opted for useas a cleaner of dishes and kettles.

When it is desired to clean a. plane surface, the device is so appliedthat the whole of one end comes in contact with the surface to becleenedthst is, one end of the ring portion and one end of the handleportion whereby the comparatively sharp edge of both the rin and handleportions may be simultanecos y brou ht into contact with the planesurface an the surface thoroughly cleaned of substances adhering theretoby a. movement ol' the im lenient along such surface.

Vlv hen it is esired to clean conceved surfaces as, for example, thebottom or sides of a kettle-the concoved edge of either ends of the ringcan be employed and the implement so inclined that the curved surface ofthe irn lenient Will correspond with the curve of the ettle-surface.

When it is desired to clean the angular portions found in dishes ofrectangular shape, the corners 6 and 7 of the handle can be 111- sertedtherein. The edge 4 can also be brought in contact with the verticalsurface of a. dish- Wall. The end edges are in contact with the bottomor horizontal portion of the dish, thus cleaning the bottom and sides atthe some time.

When desired, the V-sha ed handle may have its sharp ed e incline to theplane of the end edges 0. the ring and handle, as shown in Fig. 8, inwhich 9 is the inclined edge of the V-shaped handle 10, whereby theimplement is adopted to fit and clean at the some time the bottom of adish and the upright well when the some is inclined to the bottom of thedish, as is usual in tin dishes made rectangulsr'in form.

In the o'aodilied form of construction the ring 12 end the half 13 ofthe handle is made oi one piece of sheet metal and the other half 14 ofthe handle is made of another 'iece of sheet metal, the latter halfbeing sol ered to the ring at 15 and to the half 13 at the edge 9,thereby forming sharp cutting edges at the corners 16 of the inclinededge 9.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A dish and kettle cleaner consisting of a single strip of sheet metalbent to form from one end portion a. ring, and from the other endportion a V-sheped handle, one end extremity of the strip being firmlysecured to the body of the strip to give rigidity to the ring, and theother end extremity of the strip being secured to the ring portion togive ri- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set gidity to tlif handle.1 1 my hand this 15th day of September, 1905.

2. A dis and kett e e eaner corn rising at r T solid ring, and aV-shaped handle mly se- MARX 5 cured to, and projecting from, one sideof the Witnesses:

ring, the end edges of the ring and handle be- GEO. A. MosHER,

ing in the same plane with each other. I FRANK C. CURTIS.

